Record Groups
Metadata
Collection |
Berman Family Papers |
Object Name |
Collection |
Catalog Number |
RG-112 |
Dates of Creation |
1946-2003 |
Extent of Description |
1 linear foot (3 boxes) |
Admin/Biographical History |
Rachi Berman was born in 1913 in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Russia). He was working as an actor in Kovno, Lithuania when he was marched four miles to a prison camp on August 15, 1941. While at the camp, Rachi watched his family slowly disappear until he was the only survivor. Both he and his wife, Rachel, were partisans. He smuggled weapons into the Kovno ghetto as part of the effort. He was freed on May 9, 1945. They married after the war and immigrated to the United States. |
Copyrights |
No restriction on use. |
Language of Material |
Hebrew, German, and English. |
Scope & Content |
The Berman Family Papers largely focus on the life of Rachi Berman after World War II. These papers include newspaper clippings, theater reviews, and history books recounting the Holocaust. Folder 1 contains notes taken during an interview with Rachel Berman. Folder 2 holds copies of newspaper clippings relating to the theater careers of Rachi and Rachel. Folder 3 has a booklet of what appears to be an Israeli journal. The folder also contains photocopies of particular pages of the booklet. Folder 4 has a magazine titled "A Mad History of the Arab-Israeli Campaign." Folder 5 contains a publication featuring photos of several concentration camps titled "KZ." Folder 6 holds a sketch of a man, possibly Rachi Berman. Folder 7 contains tax documents for the Berman family in 1982. Boxes 2 and 3 hold several books donated by the Bermans. Box 2 has a history of the extermination of the Jews in Kovno written in Hebrew in 1948. It also holds a scrapbook which contains reviews of theater performances, written in English, German, and Hebrew. Finally, Box 3 contains the Sholom Aleichem Panorama which was published by the Jewish Observer and is a tribute to the great writer Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich. |
Subjects |
Tilsit, East Prussia Kovno, Lithuania Kovno Ghetto Partisans |